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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09

Mllulu Hlu
Howard Thorndike was n man who. Or
dinarilv. would allow nothing, not even the
most extraordinary occurrence, to startle or
surprise him.
De was about thirty years of age, a man
of intellectual bearing, and possessed Of
that indescribabIe well-bred air which be-
tokens IA gentleman everywhere His dark
brown hair dropped ia waves on his broad
forehead, whittier it had been pushed as he
inadvertently ran his fingers through 1t
during his reyerie. Under the tirm-kuIt
eyebrows his usually sharp, deep blue eyes
had assumed 81 lackadaIslCal expression,
and were now gazing at the hbretto on his
knee with a PARKWAY look, as though his
mind was ceutered on some object miles
beyond the other side of 1t
That he was favored son of fortune was
apparent by the spleudor of his surround
ings, and the fact that his apartments We're
Iii. best suite in one of the most fashionable
hotels IN New York City No one could
live at the Windsor without money, and
money in plenty.
Howard Thorndibe's downtown invest
meuts Welded handsome income, and en-
abIed him to hold a corner at the club and
a box at the theater, to appear with a four
in hand in the afternoon at the park, and
to live IN a luxurious manner, altogether at
travelled over continental Europe, and was
well read ana highly educated everywhere
au fat, and IN fact, general favoute with
his acluaiutanees. more especially with the
designing mammas, who considered him a
desirable catch for their manageable
daughters. Many We're the bats thrust for
ward, many were the tea parties socIables,
and balls gotten up for his especial benefit,
and many were the times gracious mann
mas retired, cross and disap pOinted, through
his non-appearauce. Polite notes of thanks
and carefully worded excuses We're sent
them at the hands Of a discreet valet. A
note of acceptance would have been the
signal for filling the pari0Ts Of the favored
hostess to OVERLOOKING.
His Sundays, for the previous two years,
had been spent IN Boston. Each Sunday
morning found him there, and the next
Morday morning back again in New York.
Two seasons previous he had been intro
duced to Efie Desmond, at Saratoga, and
had been bewitched by her pretty face and
charming ways
She was "a ward Of Mr.. and Mrs EdOuaTd
Desmond. of NewbUry street, Boston. A
sprightlv young lady Of twenty, whose only
fault, III the eyes Of Mr.. Howard Thorn
dixie, had been an aptness to introduce in
to her conversation too many quotations
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Men of the Day.

COLONEL II. c. PARSONS, proprietor Of
the Natup! Bridge of Virginia, has bought
"a farm near Round Top and the Gettysburg
battlefield.
Ben. PEHLEY PooEE Is said 10 have re-
marked regarding his last two books: They
viii perhaps bring in enough money to pay
my funeral expenses
EN- GoyFENCE POWELL CLAYTON of
Arkansas thinks that Cleveland is sure to
bee nominated, and that Sherman will be
the Republican nominee for President.
OSCAR WILDE Is fully convinced that he
was born to be a novelist. The only thing
that stands IN the way of his success Is the
impossibllity Of convincing other people.
THOMAS NICHOLS, Gsrfelds private
secretary, insists that cars suspended below
"a single track can 60 at 220 miles an hour
from san Francisco to Washington IN
dav.
Nh. BELL, owner of the Thistle, says all
he and his friends want is that the best
Yacht should win. He feels certain that he
viii receive fair play in America, and If he
fails to win it viii simply be because he is
unable.
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from Shakespeare "a fault which Mr.. Thorn
dixie had Ienlently attributed TO her having
been educated in the atmosphere Of Dos
ton blue-stoChIng semInaries.
After paying her attention for nearly a
year he became convinced that he regarded
her with more than common interest. aud
that 1T was essential Is his future happI-
ness that she should be his bride. He
made formal proposal for her hand, and
received an eyulana ton regarding her early
history which asjoulshed him.
Mr.. Edonar3 Desmond told him he felt
battered by his proposal for Miss Des-
moud hand. ana thought it simply Just
that lie should know that E-te was not b 5
dtuElIer lie once had daughter who,
while playing with her Pet dog on Gu
nari steamer plying between New y ork and
Liverpool, fell overheard and was drowned.
Ills wife, he said. was 50 overcome 10y her
bereavement that they decided 90 adsnt
child about the age Of ,heir lost one. While
eudeaVorlug to find such a one, an old
friend Of Mrs. DeNmuLls died, and IN
trusted her child 70 their care.
Miss Etie Desmond was that child.
She was about four years older than
their own daughter would have been. Her
mother had been known to the world
as 3 theatrical stlr. and rad acquired
some property. This property she had be-
queataed to the child, and the income was
suite ent for her 10 live on comfortably in
case disaster should ever sweep away the
possessions Of her foster-pa Neither
the pTnclpa. non the interest had ever been
uche1, and Il had accumulated ana lu-
Gre sed In value uutl ii was now more than
double the original amount. In addition
70 tins they were disposed 20 make her heir
o. their property. As they had no children
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STOCK-BREEDING.
Breed fo1. what You liant.


Those who still retain the idea that ami
mails can be bred 10 excel in all respects do
not succeed. Cattle, horses, sheep, and
fowls are now bred to excel in certain lines.
The hog alone is bred fer one specific pur-
pose-to make fat and flesh. In cattle.
milk, early maturity, and an aptitude to
lay on flesh do not 90 together, and never
did, except one at the expense of the other.
The racing horses of to-day has neither
weight nor steadiness enough for heavy
draft. The Jersey is not a beef producer,
but eXcels at the churn. The Holstem and
Ayrshire are strictly dairy cattle, prelUc-
ing large quantities of both butter and
cheese. At the same time these cattle do
make good beef, and plenty Of II, when hot
IN milk. They come nearer to the general
utility COW for the farmer perhaps than any
other. Yet they will not be sought where
beef is the principal object. Herein the
Short Horns, the Hereford, and the Polls
excel.
The point here for the farmer, inasmuch
MS the common stock of the country must
necessarily be the foundation stock, is
upon which to breed. Thus, the selection
of the bull is all-important lie should be
of such pure blood as comes nearest to the
condition for breeding what IS wanted.
Shorthorns and Herefords cross kindly on
the common stock of the country for beef,
as do the Holstein and Ayrshire for milk,
and also beef, where early maturity is not
essentially desired. Where the making of
butter is the essential qualification, the
Jersey or Guernsey bull viii be held In
esteem whore size IS not particularly de-
sirable. From the produce selections of
females that show peculiar excellence will
in n few years of careful breeding and care
give a herd leaving but little to be desired.
II 'HjruUO VTjbUVg
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that he passed several acquaintance with
out acknowledging their situations
His thoughts were on Ellie and the the
ater
He pictured to himself the green-room
and its bevy of sycophants and privileged
roues, with Ellie as the new center of at
/ traction; the recipient of numberless I'M
meaning. insignificant compliments and
rounds of hattery; listening TO aduations
the phrases stereotyped to the habitue but
new TO her.
What would be the effect of all this stale
incense offered at her shrine2 Would ii be
waSted2 or would she be pleased with the
novelty of her situation, and in her limo
cence accept the homage of a set of chronic
tiirts as well meant patronage and encour-
agement?
Who could tell? She was young, only
/ twenty. and humanity was the same the
world round The subtle hattery of these
experienced coXcOmbs. who were always
hanging round the green-room, was dan
gerous to young prima- donna entering
upon her first season.
To think of her-his Fife surrounded
by designing. disspated, and decayed
sprigs of mock gentility, whose added
brains We're incompetent to construct
grammatical sentence with which to dole
out their airy things with legs
| ike storks, and not even the brains of
humming- bird. 1t was too terrible to think
of; he could not bear the picture of his own
creation, and how much worse matters
might actually be
He would induce her to leave the stage at
| all hazards
! Arriving at the back entrance of the
/ opera house, he CROPPED his way through
! the dark scene-rOOm, whose grooves were
filled with grimy flats that sent down
1 showers of dust upon him each time he
/ stumbled against a set
| Once he made a mistake and tried to
! open door in a stray flat, thinking that 1t
might lead somewhere.
He could hear the sound Of voices quite
near to him, some talking and some sing
ing; then the voice of the proprietor or
manager calling several names to be ready,
Following IN the direction of the voices
led him to position from which he could
look on the stage.
T-rt Ver~
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09

'here We're Few novelties of a useful. ip
not OF snowy kind, In addition To those
receiving medals. OF the machines hon
ored by the judges the most COMPLETELY
new invention is the delaiteuse. a French
machine exhibited by the Dairy SnnnIv
Company, and used with satisfaction nv
MISS Smlthard In her demonstrations Of
butter making IN the working dairy. IN.
judges Winked at tie fact that this macbins
was introduced to the English public at the
dairy show held last autumn, and as 81
matter of-fact, they could not have PASSED
by so importont an invention for that
reason. The use of the machine is that of
extracting the buttermilk out of butter hv
centrifugal force and 1t does its work yerv
electually. 1t Is likely to be generally
USED III butter factories, and three machines
are already IN use IN Ireland besides
several OH the continent. Another novelty
shown by the same firm is the alarm ther-
mometer, an exceedingly ingenious con-
trlvance, the use of which is not likely to
be confined to agricultural work In the
dairy and III the cheese room, especially
where soft cheeses have to be made and
carefully rpened, and definite and regular
temperature IL of the utmost importance.
and the value of the new invention consists
IN It's tell-tale character. galvanic bat
terry Is connected with the Thermometer.
ana when the temperature rises above or
IalIs below gwen range, Il delicate lever
Is set IN motion, md this com ects the
electric current and causes an ala rrn-belI
ring, to and 10 keep on ringing TIL the
proper temperature Is restored or the cur
lent IS interrupted by hand. Tie inyen-
ton will be useful wherever the tempera-
ture of the chamber is of IMPORTANCE. and
ITS value Is enhanced by the possibility of
working the alarm-bell at any distance,
according to the length of wire CONNECTING
the thermometer and the battery. The
self-teeding apparatus attached to
thrashing- machine, for which Mogsrs.
Ransomes * Co. obtained silver medal.
Is certainly one of the most important new
adaptations brought out in agricultural
machinery this season, not only m respect
of its eftcctual action, but also on the score
of safety to life and limb
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09
me Men Uho succeed Htih Shccp.

1t has been fortunate for the country
generally, and especially for the interests
of sheep husbandry, that majority of the
best men interested in the Improvement of
sheep have never lost faith in their bust
ness. While the mercurial few have caught
on and let 20 with the rise and fall of flock
products-have like raw recruits rushed
forward with a cheer when few obstacles
were in sight, and as rapidly pushed wailing
to the reur when confronted with trials
the preservation and improvement of hocks
was in the keeping of men who knew their
value when managed on true business
principles. Such men were not found over
stocked when a boom was on, and never
committed the folly of allowing their fockR
to be picked for the sake of making sales
when prices favored the buyer. They
kept the best animals for their own raising.
and bought only when something better
than the average of their own focks could
be had at fair prices. For such men no
adversely was so discouraging that they
could not discern n better day ahead: no
prosperity so dazzling as to tempt them
from the even tenor of their way. Enough
of such men were found fifty years ago to
preserve the priceless Spanish Merino in
its purity through the craze for crossing
with the Savouy; and often since that era
men Of Judgment and nerve have stood by
their favorite varieties through evil as well
as good report, and aided in bringing their
many merits still nearer the standard Of a
recognized perfection.
The men who have made n success of
sheep husbandry are confined to no special
locality, are found welded to no particular
breed or variety of sheep, evince no char
acteristic in common, beyond a persistent.
intelligent determination to adapt their
surroundings 10 forcing the best possible
results from their expenditure of labor and
mouey.-Brcedsrs' Guestte.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09
An Ancient Tortoise.

A few days ago a TORTOISE was
found on the farm of Henry NJ. keP,
Ter, near MiGdletown, Nd, which haa
the initials &C. :. and the date
"176I" cut on the shell, This md
caused Mr.. Kepler TO look up his ola
deeds. and among them he found one
dated 1856. conveying The farm to
one Caspar Shoaf, and he Is now eat
isGad that he initials on the shell 81
fhe tortoise are those OF this former
owner OF thefarm. How oldIt was "heh
fhu- marked, 100 years ago, can not
be known. The tortoise was again
set ~ liberty by Mr.. kepler, and III =
lew hours thereafter had disappeared
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09
Loves Young Dream.

Lovely girl at restaurant)- My dear.
orderW hat you please for both; | don't feel
hungry bit.
Attianced young mani can't eat a
mouthful, my darling.
"Nor l. l haven't eaten anything hardly
for weeks. BY the way, what was the rent
of the house We were looking att"
one hundred dollars a month
That's Just your salary,s that won't do. "
No; the other one alongside of 1t is
eighty dollars"
Let's take that"
But twenty dollars won't buy coal and
pay a girls wages
A girl, Dear me, / forgot all about
that We must get cheaper house, be
cause there must be enough over to buy
something for the girl TO eat you know. =
Omaha WOrjd.
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THE LETTER
BY MRS. M1RI n. P. HATcH.

He's written just formal line to say
He sails next Tuesday week in the Canary,
And houas that 7 am in my usual health,
And sends his love to mother, Kate, and Mary.
He really couldn't well do less than this.
For when we parted all was very pleasant;
We both agreed to let the past be buried,
And for the uOuce think only Of the present.
1t seems SO strange to have him 90 to Europe
And b so wen content to leave me here,
Nnep once, not long ago, he so protested
!hat life without me was so blank aud drear
/ did not think that I should feel SO sOrry,
Or that my heart would sink so in my breast.
What, tears2 Oh well, I always did cry easy;
III ring for Iights-but, pshawl here comes a
guest
What, Harry? Why I've Just received your
letter,
In which you say you sail in the Canary;
I've rung for lights; excuse me Just minute
And I viii speak to mother Kate, and Mary.
It isn't them You want, but me Why. Harry,
They'd feel quite hurt, I'm sure, if 1t We're
true.
You're sorry, and Won ask me for forgivoness2
I've nothing TO forgive I'm sorry too
Why, yes, I think perhaps might get ready;
We three to help me- mother, hute, and
Mary.
How strange thereu now be two instead Of one
to 60
lOh, pshaw! weu call it one in the Canary.
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EXCITEMENT AT THE CASINO.
MADENOIsELLE DUMOND FAINTS DUR
ING THE LAST ACT OF THE
OPERA.
SUE RECOGNIZES HER RECREANT LOVER
N THE MIDST or THE
AUDIENCE.
IT IS RulT0RED THAT SHE Will BE FORCED To
LEAVE THE STAGE.

He had read on, thinking, in dreamy
sort OF way, then gotten up and dressed
himself in a morning suit and gone out
He called at the address Etiie had sent
him, but she was away-"at rehearsal" so
the clerk thought.
He passed a miserable day.
Thoughts Of the many happy hours he
had spent N her company were followed by
recoIlcctons of the deceit she had prac-
ticed On him through keeping from him
her Inherent tendency, her inclination to
the stage. He felt that she loved him; Vet
he saw that she loved stage life better.
He did not Judge her reticence and want of
candor harshiy. He remembered that her
mother had been an actress; also, that IN
conversations with her he was won't TO
chide her forabundant use Of Shakspearean
quotations, telling her that it sounded too
much like an actress-as If actresses We're
a class IN humanity whom, IN his mind. he
placed far beneath the pedestal occupied
by her.
As he communed with himself, he thought
he saw in this explanation, the reason why
she had not trusted him with the secret of
her ambitions and aspirations. And now,
It was too late. She had tasted of the in
toxicatinZ cup of public tiattery and patron
1
to the stage and forever That she would
make q success he could not doubt. Her
reception had been unprecedented since
the days of the debut of Jennie Lind.
when the theatrical world was taken by
storm and III a whirlwind of surprise.
Oh if he had only known 1t in time to
have dissuaded her! He felt that perhaps
her low for him, her inclination to please
him. might have prevented it, could he
have Lad the chance to attempt to swerve
her from what must have been an almost
fixed purpose.
Then came q reaction Of thought when
he recolected how carefully she had kept
It from him, and it could be for no other
reason than her fear of his displeasure
Why had he not married her before now2
There was no good reason for a long en-
ggement, That 1t was his own fault lie
imagined he could see plainly.
Thus he had sat through the day, tor
meutiug himself with vague ideas, con-
iuuug up excuses for her, and attributing
the re-u lts of what were actually tenden-
ces inherited directly from her mother
indirectly to his want of disceTnment Of
this phase in her character.
Five o'clock came and the evening pa
pers with it.
He looked them over again, and leading
the column above the general theatrical
news le found the heading:
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Safety from Malaria

The most vigorous constitution, and the
strongest physique are not proof against dis
ease. the germs Of which inpregnate the air We
breathe and the water we drink The true pro-
parative the surest defense, is 70 fortlty the
system with n medicine which possesses
specific virtues as safeguard and remedy
Hostettzr's stomach Bitters IS precisely TINS
article proved by conclusive tests 70 ne so,
Not ONLY on this continent. wherever m!aHna
gives birth 70 the maIariel infection, but IN 'ht
tropics where fever and ague assumes It's i4os'
malignant types, this lncOmpara be, lobA,ai,
and deserving medicine has, FOR over third 't
a century showu'its efficacy. Chills ana FEVER
dumb aEue ii0us remittent, alike Nie'1 %
its influence and prevented bylt- M !" orr
afajl- has no place ia the lexicon OF lrs-itlLl.
when this Te0r ess article "a Used II tones '.S
stomach. arou=es the liver when sluEs 3D. ana
promotes beautiful activity Of the kidneys anu
D. l. -...
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09
Ner nni,,L I,unLc,,le,.ts-

The most important novelties in agricul-
tural mechanism, says a London paper,
are usually reserved by the inventors or
manufacturers for introduction at the show
Of the Royal Agricultural Society, as the
Judges look coldlv upon anything which
has been previously exhibited. md seldom
award a medal in such case. At the
Norwich show there was nothing new of a
very startling character, and as the Judges
gave only five medals out of ten which they
are emf owered to award, IT appears that
they dId not find many new things guf
tclenNv meritorious in their opinion to he
honored 10y their commentator, Still.
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dixie emerged from the hotel to keep his
appointment at the theater A Scotch mist
hung in the air, and the night was chilly.
damp, and disagreeable. The moist flag
stones of the sidewalk reflected the duh
light of the gas-lamps above, and as they
receded from view in the distance, they
looked like streaming double files of fire.
flies disappearing III the fog beyond.
He buttoned his coat we'll around his
throat and walked with rapid pace toward
his destination, utterly oblivious TO the fact
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-07-09
DAIRYING.
Tniru OlttRt.

The following list comprises all the arti-
cles absolutely required to handle cream
from milk of fifty COWS for butter making.
One l0D gallon cream vat; one sixty gallon
churn; one butter-worker; one dairy scale;
two dairy pals: two dairy thermometers:
one cream tester; one straiuer: fifty setting
cans. The price of this outfit is about, we
understand, 100. For zoe cows milk an
en-iue and boiler would be necessary and
additional setting cans, and would cost. in
addition to the fifty COWS outfit, in the
neigh borhood of $500.
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q W ARD j HbENDIkE
reclined in a fayonta easy
chair By the window. in
one of the sumptuously
fitted apartments in his
bachelor suite. listlessfy
watching he blue wreaths
of smoke as they rose from
his fragrant havana and
slowly curled themselves
into fantastic shapes in
their ascent to the ceiling.
The libretto of q light
opera rested on his knee.
and his cool, unruliied, and
apparently careless exte-
rIor would never have
betrayed to an observer
the tumult which reigned
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THIS EVENING As USUAL.
He Ind presented his card at the stage
door that evening and had been refused
admIt@uce. He could not bear to see her
en- the tage again: so he returned to has
rooms and sent her a note, telling her that
b wuu.d cal at a fixed time in the after
moor. The next day before the time of
his app latmant arrived be had received
note ii I'M Ltt.. asking him to call for har
al the end of the performance. and saving
that she had -lyen orders" for him to be
admitted. He smiled as ha read the clause
given orders, and thought how little avail
would nave been her orders TO the contrary.
had he been inclined 10 push an audience
the ming previous
Nee lnicaliv he had reached for a cigar.
and - taken mp the libretto. with the
int ID IA of looking over the cast of char
asters g see what class of professionals
we're --oeIated with his darling: but be
got no further than this. for ms thoughts
wind I'd back, far lack of the present.
and unused, as we find him ou what be
-hou Ia aud say when hey should meet
that evening
CHAPTER IT,
ON EEEE. Row Gould YOU
The clock struck ten as Howard Thorn
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An analysis of certain "complexio

An analysis of certain complexion
waters sold in New York has led DR..
Edison to advise the arrest and prosecu-
ton of the manufacturer OF the waters.
4 LONG, thin youth of Pittsburg can
initiate a steam whistle perfectly. The
other day the hands in one of the fac
tories quit work ut half-past II when
they heard him toot. They thought It
was noon